ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,030, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Generative nonlinear human shape models" was invented by Cristian Sminchisescu (Kanton of Zurich, Switzerland), Hongyi Xu (Kanton of Zurich, Switzerland), Eduard Gabriel Bazavan (Kanton of Zurich, Switzerland), Andrei Zanfir (Kanton of Zurich, Switzerland), William T. Freeman (Acton, Mass.) and Rahul Sukthankar (Orlando, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a statistical, articulated 3D human shape modeling pipeline within a fully trainable, modular, deep learning framework. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure ar...